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Would banning threads users be a mod violation? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Can I make a rule for my community that threads users will be banned?
If .world doesn't defederate and threads users find their way into my community, I want to ban any that interact. Using anything meta related is a fundamental violation of the values I hold for using FOSS and the fediverse.
Would doing so violate the guidelines? I don't see anything suggesting it would, but want to check.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Some people resist anything FOSS and put trust in centralized authorities and their services. Threads users will use what they will and act as they do, but activity from Threads users isn't necessarily always going to be activity that violates any guidelines or rules. Banning people because they access federation from a tool made by a bad company instead of a tool made by good independent work seems like stretching things beyond banning for end-user interaction behaviour, even though its the obviously more sound choice to use a FOSS solution for accessing federated instances.